Tiffany Jones (1973)

Director:

Pete Walker

Writer:

Alfred Shaughnessy (writer)

Release Date:

August 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. |

Plot Keywords:

Spy | Interrogation | Foreign Agent | Female Nudity | Based On Comic Strip

Cast

Anouska Hempel	...	Tiffany Jones
Ray Brooks	...	Guy
Susan Sheers	...	Jo
Eric Pohlmann	...	President Boris Jabal
Martin Benson	...	Petcek
Damien Thomas	...	Prince Salvator
Alan Curtis	...	Marocek
Bill Kerr	...	Morton
Richard Marner	...	Vorjak
John Clive	...	Stefan
Geoffrey Hughes	...	Georg
Ivor Salter	...	Karatik
Lynda Baron	...	Anna Karokin
Nick Zaran	...	Anton
Martin Wyldeck	...	Brodsky

Also Known As:

Tales of Tiffany Jones (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:L | USA:R

Company:

Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd.

Trivia:

Based on a cartoon strip in the British newspapers Daily Sketch and Daily Mail by Pat Tourret and Jenny Butterworth

Soundtrack:

Tiffany Jones

Neither One Thing Nor The Other

The original Tiffany Jones newspaper strip won plaudits for its wit and style. Written and drawn by two female fashion journalists, it told of the exploits of a glamorous model, Tiffany, and her friends Jo and boyfriend Guy, and epitomised the free spirit of 'Swinging London'. Unfortunately this seems to have been completely jettisoned in this rather tedious adaptation. Instead poor Jo and Guy are relegated to a brief appearance at the start of the film, and then disappear for the duration. Tiffany gets embroiled in an attempt by a deposed foreign royal to overthrow the dictatorship which has taken over his country. The makers of the film seem unsure how seriously they should take the story, and how much sex and nudity (which is after all the only reason most people will be watching) to throw into the mix. One can only speculate what Fiona Richmond's producers, makers of probably the best looking sex films of the period, would have done with this story. Or how it would have been handled by the more low-brow creators of the 'Confessions' or 'Adventures' films; doubtless the clothing would have been lost with more panache than happens here. Anouska Hempel does not have the knowing sexuality of a Fiona, nor does she have the dizzy wide-eyed innocence which might also have worked. Instead she is reduced to reacting to everything that happens to her as if it was an everyday occurrence. The viewer is left with a feeling of regret for what might have been.